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<p>I am an Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in the Department of English
and Creative Writing at the Open University. My research concerns modern and contemporary British-Jewish
and Holocaust literature, and utopian/dystopian texts. Among my critical works are
two books on British Jewish poetry:<em>Passionate Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain
since 1945</em>(Five Leaves, 2001) and<em>Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg
to Elaine Feinstein</em>(Vallentine Mitchell, 2006). The former was awarded a Poetry
Book Society Special Commendation. I am also a poet with a published collection,<em>Senseless
Hours</em>(2009).</p><p>As<strong></strong>a member of the Open University Postcolonial
and Global Literatures Research Group, I recently<strong></strong>convened a conference
on the topic of utopia and dystopia in contemporary British-Jewish literature, film
and television at the London and the South East Regional Centre. This major international
conference was a collaborative project which received additional support from Bangor
University, the University of Winchester and the British Jewish Contemporary Culture
research network. Subsequently, I guest-edited a special issue of the <em>Journal
of European Popular Culture</em>(2016), which features articles based on conference
papers.</p><p>Please see below a selection of my publications, conference papers and
public lectures. </p><h3>Publications</h3><h4>Books</h4><p><em>Senseless Hours</em>(London:
Bayswater Press, 2009), 46 pages</p><p><em>Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg
to Elaine Feinstein</em>(London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006), 227 pages</p><p><em>Passionate
Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain since 1945</em>(Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2001),
354 pages</p><h4>Edited Book</h4><p>Karen Gershon,<em>A Tempered Wind</em>, edited
by Peter Lawson and Phyllis Lassner (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009),
183 pages</p><h4>Essays in Edited Books</h4><p>'The Promised Land: Utopia
and Dystopia in Contemporary Anglo-Jewish Literature’, <em>Yearbook
for European Jewish Literature Studies</em>, edited by Caspar Battegay (Berlin:
De Gruyter, 2016), pp.183-201</p><p>‘Otherness and Transcendence: The Poetry
of Ruth Fainlight and Elaine Feinstein’, in<em>British Jewish Women Writers</em>,
edited by Nadia Valman (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014), pp.135-155<br
/><br />‘Anglo-Jewish Theatre’, in<em>The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism
and Jewish Culture</em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.592-593</p><p>‘Anglo-Jewish
Poetry’, in<em>The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture</em>(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.478-479</p><h4>Edited Journals</h4><p><em>Humanities</em>:<i> </i>'Contemporary
British-Jewish Literature, 1970-2020' [special issue, TBP 2020]: <a
href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/british_jewish" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/british_jewish</a></p><div><div><div><em>Journal
of European Popular Culture</em>:‘Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British
Jewish Literature’ 7.1 (2016), 99 pages</div><div> </div></div></div><p><em>Shirim:</em>‘British
Jewish Poetry’ 27.2-28.1 (2009), 63 pages</p><h4>Refereed Articles in Journals</h4><p>'Pinter
and Poetry',<em>The Harold Pinter Review </em>[TBP 2020]</p><p>'The Promised
Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British Jewish Literature’, <em>Journal
of European Popular Culture </em>7.1 (2016), 3-8</p><p>‘Utopia and dystopia
in the British Jewish poetry of Ruth Fainlight and Elaine Feinstein’, <em>Journal
of European Popular Culture</em>7.1 (2016), 47-57</p><p>‘Trouble in Utopia:“With
the Night Mail” and“As Easy as A.B.C.”’,<em>The Kipling Journal</em>89.359
(2015), pp.42-52</p><p> ‘Towards a Diasporic Poetics: the case of British
Jewish poetry’,<em>European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe</em>47.2 (2014),
pp. 30-40</p><h4>Poems and Blogs</h4><p>‘The State of British Jewish Poetry’,<em>The
Jewish Quarterly</em>(2015), blog</p><p>‘Poems’,<em>The Jewish Quarterly</em>61:1
(2014), p.11</p><h3>Conferences and Lectures</h3><p>'Pinter and Poetry', 2019, <em>Harold
Pinter: Histories and Legacies, A Three-Day International Conference</em>, Leeds University</p><p>'Utopia
Postponed: The Didactic Theatre of Arnold Wesker', 2018, <em>Hyphenated Cultures:
Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre</em>, Technische Universität Braunschweig (https://britishjewishtheatre.org)</p><p>'Beyond
Realism: London and the Theatre of Harold Pinter', 2018,<em>The City: Myth and
Materiality</em>, Association for Literary Urban Studies/ Institute of Historical
Research, University of London</p><p>'Performing Jewishness: Reflections on the
Theatre of Harold Pinter', 2018,<em>Bangor Jewish Contemporary Cultures</em>,
Bangor University</p><p>'Poetry and Protest: Reflections on the Plays of Steven
Berkoff, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker', 2017, <em>Hyphenated Cultures:
Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre</em>, Technische Universität Braunschweig </p><p>‘John
Rodker:“Foreign-ness” and Modern Jewish Literature’, 2016, <em>The
Texture of Jewish Tradition: Investigations in Textuality</em>, University of Birmingham</p><p><em><a
href="http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/postcolonial/events/the-promised-land">The
Promised Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British-Jewish Culture</a></em>(conference
convener), 2015, The Open University (<a href="http://britishjewishcontemporaryculture.com"
rel="nofollow">http://britishjewishcontemporaryculture.com</a>)</p><p>'Recollection
in Anxiety: Howard Jacobson’s <em>The Finker Question</em> and <em>J</em>’,
2015, <em>Memory Frictions: Conflict-Negotiation-Politics’, </em>Universidad
Zaragoza</p><p>‘Poetry after Auschwitz’, 2015,<em>Tracing Topographies:
Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz</em>,
University of Kent<br /><br />‘Rudyard Kipling’s Dystopian Turn:“With
the Night Mail” and“As Easy as A.B.C.”’, 2014,<em>European
Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Conference</em>, University of Helsinki</p><p>‘Palestine
in the Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg and Siegfried Sassoon’, 2014,<em>The Jewish
Experience of the First World War</em>, University of Sussex/Royal Holloway</p><p>‘British
Jewish Poetry Projects’, 2014,<em>British Jewish Contemporary Culture Colloquium</em>,
University College London</p><p> ‘Diasporic Poetry in Britain’, 2014,<em>Associate
Lecturer Research Seminar</em>, The Open University</p><p>‘Towards a Diasporic
Poetics: the case of British Jewish poetry’, 2013,<em>Postgraduate Research
Seminar</em>, University of Northampton</p><p>‘Paul Celan’/‘Sylvia
Plath and the Holocaust’/‘Philip Roth and the American Dream’/‘The
American Jewish Novel 1960-1990’, 2013, <em>The Rest is Noise</em>, Royal
Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London</p><p>‘The State of British Jewish Poetry’,
2013,<em>British Jewish Contemporary Culture Colloquium</em>, University of Winchester</p><p> ‘Poetry
After the Holocaust’, 2012,<em>A Day at the IWM London</em>, Imperial War Museum</p> |
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<p>I am an Honorary Associate and Associate Lecturer in the Department of English
and Creative Writing at the Open University. My research concerns modern and contemporary British-Jewish
and Holocaust literature, and utopian/dystopian texts. Among my critical works are
two books on British Jewish poetry:<em>Passionate Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain
since 1945</em>(Five Leaves, 2001) and<em>Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg
to Elaine Feinstein</em>(Vallentine Mitchell, 2006). The former was awarded a Poetry
Book Society Special Commendation. I am also a poet with a published collection,<em>Senseless
Hours</em>(2009).</p><p>As<strong></strong>a member of the Open University Postcolonial
and Global Literatures Research Group, I recently<strong></strong>convened a conference
on the topic of utopia and dystopia in contemporary British-Jewish literature, film
and television at the London and the South East Regional Centre. This major international
conference was a collaborative project which received additional support from Bangor
University, the University of Winchester and the British Jewish Contemporary Culture
research network. Subsequently, I guest-edited a special issue of the <em>Journal
of European Popular Culture</em>(2016), which features articles based on conference
papers.</p><p>Please see below a selection of my publications, conference papers and
public lectures. </p><h3>Publications</h3><h4>Books</h4><p><em>Senseless Hours</em>(London:
Bayswater Press, 2009), 46 pages</p><p><em>Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg
to Elaine Feinstein</em>(London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006), 227 pages</p><p><em>Passionate
Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain since 1945</em>(Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2001),
354 pages</p><h4>Edited Book</h4><p>Karen Gershon,<em>A Tempered Wind</em>, edited
by Peter Lawson and Phyllis Lassner (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009),
183 pages</p><h4>Essays in Edited Books</h4><p>'The Promised Land: Utopia
and Dystopia in Contemporary Anglo-Jewish Literature’, <em>Yearbook
for European Jewish Literature Studies</em>, edited by Caspar Battegay (Berlin:
De Gruyter, 2016), pp.183-201</p><p>‘Otherness and Transcendence: The Poetry
of Ruth Fainlight and Elaine Feinstein’, in<em>British Jewish Women Writers</em>,
edited by Nadia Valman (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2014), pp.135-155<br
/><br />‘Anglo-Jewish Theatre’, in<em>The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism
and Jewish Culture</em>(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.592-593</p><p>‘Anglo-Jewish
Poetry’, in<em>The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture</em>(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.478-479</p><h4>Edited Journals</h4><p><em>Humanities</em>:<i> </i>'Contemporary
British-Jewish Literature, 1970-2020' [special issue, TBP 2020]: <a
href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/british_jewish" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/british_jewish</a></p><div><div><div><em>Journal
of European Popular Culture</em>:‘Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British
Jewish Literature’ 7.1 (2016), 99 pages</div><div> </div></div></div><p><em>Shirim:</em>‘British
Jewish Poetry’ 27.2-28.1 (2009), 63 pages</p><h4>Refereed Articles in Journals</h4><p>'Pinter
and Poetry',<em>The Harold Pinter Review </em>[TBP 2020]</p><p>'The Promised
Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British Jewish Literature’, <em>Journal
of European Popular Culture </em>7.1 (2016), 3-8</p><p>‘Utopia and dystopia
in the British Jewish poetry of Ruth Fainlight and Elaine Feinstein’, <em>Journal
of European Popular Culture</em>7.1 (2016), 47-57</p><p>‘Trouble in Utopia:“With
the Night Mail” and“As Easy as A.B.C.”’,<em>The Kipling Journal</em>89.359
(2015), pp.42-52</p><p> ‘Towards a Diasporic Poetics: the case of British
Jewish poetry’,<em>European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe</em>47.2 (2014),
pp. 30-40</p><h4>Poems and Blogs</h4><p>‘The State of British Jewish Poetry’,<em>The
Jewish Quarterly</em>(2015), blog</p><p>‘Poems’,<em>The Jewish Quarterly</em>61:1
(2014), p.11</p><h3>Conferences and Lectures</h3><p>'Pinter and Poetry', 2019, <em>Harold
Pinter: Histories and Legacies, A Three-Day International Conference</em>, Leeds University</p><p>'Utopia
Postponed: The Didactic Theatre of Arnold Wesker', 2018, <em>Hyphenated Cultures:
Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre</em>, Technische Universität Braunschweig (https://britishjewishtheatre.org)</p><p>'Beyond
Realism: London and the Theatre of Harold Pinter', 2018,<em>The City: Myth and
Materiality</em>, Association for Literary Urban Studies/ Institute of Historical
Research, University of London</p><p>'Performing Jewishness: Reflections on the
Theatre of Harold Pinter', 2018,<em>Bangor Jewish Contemporary Cultures</em>,
Bangor University</p><p>'Poetry and Protest: Reflections on the Plays of Steven
Berkoff, Harold Pinter and Arnold Wesker', 2017, <em>Hyphenated Cultures:
Contemporary British-Jewish Theatre</em>, Technische Universität Braunschweig </p><p>‘John
Rodker:“Foreign-ness” and Modern Jewish Literature’, 2016, <em>The
Texture of Jewish Tradition: Investigations in Textuality</em>, University of Birmingham</p><p><em><a
href="http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/postcolonial/events/the-promised-land">The
Promised Land: Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary British-Jewish Culture</a></em>(conference
convener), 2015, The Open University (<a href="http://britishjewishcontemporaryculture.com"
rel="nofollow">http://britishjewishcontemporaryculture.com</a>)</p><p>'Recollection
in Anxiety: Howard Jacobson’s <em>The Finker Question</em> and <em>J</em>’,
2015, <em>Memory Frictions: Conflict-Negotiation-Politics’, </em>Universidad
Zaragoza</p><p>‘Poetry after Auschwitz’, 2015,<em>Tracing Topographies:
Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz</em>,
University of Kent<br /><br />‘Rudyard Kipling’s Dystopian Turn:“With
the Night Mail” and“As Easy as A.B.C.”’, 2014,<em>European
Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Conference</em>, University of Helsinki</p><p>‘Palestine
in the Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg and Siegfried Sassoon’, 2014,<em>The Jewish
Experience of the First World War</em>, University of Sussex/Royal Holloway</p><p>‘British
Jewish Poetry Projects’, 2014,<em>British Jewish Contemporary Culture Colloquium</em>,
University College London</p><p> ‘Diasporic Poetry in Britain’, 2014,<em>Associate
Lecturer Research Seminar</em>, The Open University</p><p>‘Towards a Diasporic
Poetics: the case of British Jewish poetry’, 2013,<em>Postgraduate Research
Seminar</em>, University of Northampton</p><p>‘Paul Celan’/‘Sylvia
Plath and the Holocaust’/‘Philip Roth and the American Dream’/‘The
American Jewish Novel 1960-1990’, 2013, <em>The Rest is Noise</em>, Royal
Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London</p><p>‘The State of British Jewish Poetry’,
2013,<em>British Jewish Contemporary Culture Colloquium</em>, University of Winchester</p><p> ‘Poetry
After the Holocaust’, 2012,<em>A Day at the IWM London</em>, Imperial War Museum</p> |
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